Achieve compliance with long-term retention requirements for both structured data and unstructured content with the EMC Enterprise Archiving solution. This scalable archiving solution is designed to deliver operational efficiencies and significant cost savings.

Enterprise Scalability

Solution Description

Challenge

Many organizations are experiencing exploding growth in business information and increased regulatory requirements. Unfortunately, this mix of opportunity and risk is hitting IT departments at a time of serious cost-cutting.

Legacy and enterprise applications are bursting with different forms of information: transactions, documents, voice recordings, XML data, print streams, and other types of structured and unstructured content—significantly straining production systems. In addition, many organizations are spending millions to maintain legacy applications that are kept alive solely for their data—an unnecessary drain on IT due to the high costs and scarce resources needed to maintain these systems.

Technology Solution

The EMC Enterprise Archiving solution supports the archiving of data in any format from any system. A unified, enterprisewide solution, it ingests structured data, unstructured content, print streams, and XML from a multitude of applications at the same time.

The Enterprise Archiving solution enables the retirement of legacy applications, delivering significant cost savings and improvements in production system performance. It helps to meet compliance requirements such as data retention, encryption, and time stamping.

In addition, the Enterprise Archiving solution supports the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and complies with the Open Archive Information System standard (OAIS). It provides unified access to archived information so that authorized users—auditors, partners, employees, customers—can quickly find the information they need.

Results

Store and manage any content types

Manage business content based on retention policies

Provide auditability and immutability to meet a broad swath of regulatory mandates

Store information in an open, industry-standard format for long-term retention and easy accessibility

Solix Technologies is a leading provider of data management solutions including Solix EDMS Database Archiving. Solix Data Archive for EAS enables the archiving of data from business applications to EAS and all common RDBMS are supported.

The Cube solution automatically extracts all global regulatory data relevant to record keeping to meet the needs of the global banking and financial services sector. Retention policies generated by the Cube can be implemented against data archived to EAS.

With extensive experience migrating data from old applications into updated technologies, the Windward Group can migrate data from any platform and import it into the EMC Enterprise Archiving solution infrastructure.

Customer Profiles

GDF SUEZ

The EMC Enterprise Archiving solution helped GDF SUEZ to meet long-term preservation needs for large volumes of unstructured content for all GDF European operations. The solution delivered compliance with archiving requirements for all business entities and with European standards.